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Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke

Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke

Pangle, Thomas L.

Paperback

Series: EXXON Lecture

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0226645479
ISBN13: 9780226645476
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Oct 15 1990
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
The Spirit of Modern Republicanism sets forth a radical reinterpretation of the foundations on which the American regime was constructed. Thomas L. Pangle argues that the Founders had a dramatically new vision of civic virtue, religious faith, and intellectual life, rooted in an unprecedented commitment to private and economic liberties. It is in the thought of John Locke that Pangle finds the fullest elaboration of the principles supporting the Founders' moral vision.

A work of extraordinary ambition, written with great intensity. . . . [Pangle offers] a trenchant analysis of Locke's writings, designed to demonstrate their remarkable originality and to clarify by doing so as much as the objective predicament as the conscious intentions of the Founding Fathers themselves.--John Dunn, Times Higher Education Supplement

A forcefully argued study of the Founding Fathers' debt to Locke. . . . What distinguishes Pangle's study from the dozens of books which have challenged or elaborated upon the republican revision is the sharpness with which he exposes the errors of the revisionists while at the same time leaving something of substantive value for the reader to consider.--Joyce Appleby, Canadian Journal of History

Breathtaking in its daring and novelty. . . . Pangle's book is tense and tenacious, a stunning meditation on America's political culture.--John Patrick Diggins, Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society

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